Mon Feb 7, 2022 – 10:29 am EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Just out of range of the TV cameras beaming the feel-good Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games to the planet lies the world’s most suffocating totalitarian surveillance state, engineered and enforced by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
“The CCP uses invasive state surveillance and police powers to track citizens and foreigners throughout the country and ensures that no one can hide from the repression of the party,” notes the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee (RPC) in a report released last week, titled “China, Human Rights, and the Olympics.”
“China’s authoritarian regime ruthlessly deploys the very latest in surveillance and artificial intelligence technology to monitor and control its 1.4 billion citizens,” observed The Washington Examiner’s Amby Conn Carroll. “This is unsurprising since any totalitarian communist state must exert maximum control over its people in order to survive.”
“Maximum control” has clearly reached new heights thanks to advances in technology and the near-universal use of social media over the last decade.
“What we have now in China is the nightmare of the world’s first truly totalitarian state,” said Steve Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute and a China
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